“I went and auditioned for [‘Titanic’]. I wanted that. I auditioned with Kate Winslet. Had a good audition. Walked away from there pretty confident that I had it. I didn’t get it. I never got offered that.”

“And as I’ve said before not even half-jokingly if it’s true, if that was an offer and it didn’t come to me, I’ve got to go back and go, ‘I’ve got to meet in an alley with that agent.’

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McConaughey and DiCaprio’s careers took divergent paths following the success ofTitanic. Leo soon began to collaborate closely with directors like Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg in critically acclaimed movies likeGangs Of New YorkandCatch Me If You Can, while McConaughey became a rent-a-hunk for a series of wildly successful rom-coms.

But he doesn’t regret spending much of his career as a smirking heart throb, telling the podcast: “It was fun, it was great pay and I learned that, you know what, these are not the type of movies to dig deep [within one's own experience]. They were "Saturday characters." I remember saying, "I'm gonna give myself another Saturday!"